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Data Centre Developer Sues New Jersey Town for $300m

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed...

Data centre developer Hexa Builders is seeking $300 million in damages from Monroe Township, New Jersey, after officials rejected its proposed 1 million sq ft data centre in May. The lawsuit, filed in New Jersey Superior Court, alleges the township council and planning board violated multiple constitutional rights, including zoning authority, fundamental fairness, and First and Fourteenth Amendment protections. Hexa argues the application was rejected because of the township’s opposition to d...

August 01, 2026

Posted by: Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji

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Read CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska
CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska
April 17, 2024

CGI kickstarts network deployment in Alaska

United States

Managed services provider CGI confirmed earlier this month that it has begun the first part of its network fiber deployment in Alaska, installing approximately 45 miles of fiber over the frozen tundra between Eek and Napaskiak. This is part of a project between Bethel Native Corporation and GC...

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Read Akamai launches cloud offering for video processing
Akamai launches cloud offering for video processing
April 17, 2024

Akamai launches cloud offering for video processing

United States

Akamai has launched a media-optimized cloud offering for video processing,  based on Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada Generation GPUs which have been selected for their ability to process video content more efficiently and effectively.“Media companies need low-latency, reliable compute resources that maint...

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Read Colt DCS plans expansion of planned data center in Hayes
Colt DCS plans expansion of planned data center in Hayes
April 17, 2024

Colt DCS plans expansion of planned data center in Hayes

Colt Data Centre Services

Colt DCS, a company which provides hyperscale and large enterprise data center solutions,  is set to double the size of its planned data center campus in Hayes, West London, after acquiring a fresh parcel of land.A Colt DCS statement said: “This will make the entire site one of the largest in ...

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Read IHH Healthcare migrates to Oracle
IHH Healthcare migrates to Oracle
April 17, 2024

IHH Healthcare migrates to Oracle

Oracle

IHH Healthcare (IHH) has migrated its workloads to Oracle's cloud offerings. Its Singapore operations will be moved to Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. On the other hand, its Malaysia branch has opted to migrate to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, one of Oracle's o...

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Read Great Eastern migrates 300 databases to Oracle
Great Eastern migrates 300 databases to Oracle
April 16, 2024

Great Eastern migrates 300 databases to Oracle

Oracle

Singapore and Malaysia-based insurance group Great Eastern has migrated 300 on-premise databases to on-premise Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) hardware. The company has currently  moved 200 terabytes from 300 on-premise Oracle databases to Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer while still housed in ...

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Read Los Alamos Lab unveils Venado supercomputer
Los Alamos Lab unveils Venado supercomputer
April 16, 2024

Los Alamos Lab unveils Venado supercomputer

New Mexico

The Venado supercomputer has been launched at Los Alamos National Laboratory. This is a system which consists of 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips; 920 Nvidia Grace CPU Superchips, each of which contains 144 Arm cores; and is networked with HPE Slingshot 11 interconnec...

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Read Accelsius launches new two-phase cooling system
Accelsius launches new two-phase cooling system
April 16, 2024

Accelsius launches new two-phase cooling system

Australia

Cooling company Accelsius, which provides two-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling systems, this week officially announced the launch of its new two-phase cooling system, NeuCool, its in-rack solution. The company says NeuCool offers capacity that has been tested beyond 1,500 watts per server c...

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Read Macquire DC acquires new campus in Sydney
Macquire DC acquires new campus in Sydney
April 16, 2024

Macquire DC acquires new campus in Sydney

Macquarie Data Centres

Australia's Macquarie Data Centres this week announced that it will be acquiring its existing Macquarie Park data center campus from Singapore's Keppel DC REIT. The companies have entered into a binding agreement which will see Macquarie acquire the existing Intellicentre 2 and Intellicentre 3...

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Read Virgin Media O2 to use starlink satellites for network connectivity in rural areas
Virgin Media O2 to use starlink satellites for network connectivity in rural areas
April 15, 2024

Virgin Media O2 to use starlink satellites for network connectivity in rural areas

Virgin Media Business

Virgin Media O2 said in anew announcement that it will use Starlink satellites to provide network connectivity in remote rural areas of the UK to accelerate its Shared Rural Network (SRN) rollout. The company has already deployed its Starlink mobile backhaul to some of its most remote sites in...

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Read JPMorgan Chase plans to host 75% of data in cloud this year
JPMorgan Chase plans to host 75% of data in cloud this year
April 15, 2024

JPMorgan Chase plans to host 75% of data in cloud this year

United States

Financial services firm JPMorgan Chase revealed its plans get 75 percent of its data and 70 percent of its applications into the cloud within 2024 in a letter from CEO Jamie Dimon to JPMorgan's shareholders.The company which stands as the world’s gifts largest bank by revenue told it’s shareho...

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Read Lumen secures new contract from GAO
Lumen secures new contract from GAO
April 15, 2024

Lumen secures new contract from GAO

Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has secured a contract worth about $73.6 million from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) under the General Services Administration's Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program. This multi-million dollar contract will see Lumen modernize network, data, voice...

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Read Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster
Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster
April 15, 2024

Samsung plans investment in semiconductor cluster

Texas

Samsung Electronics has announced it will invest $40 billion to build a semiconductor cluster across a number of locations in Texas with a $6.4bn in direct funding under the US Chips and Science Act to support the development. The Taylor fabs are expected to be up and running by 2026 and Samsu...

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Read Viasat launches new headquarters in London
Viasat launches new headquarters in London
April 15, 2024

Viasat launches new headquarters in London

London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for t...

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Read NTT conducts photonics tests in UK and US data centers
NTT conducts photonics tests in UK and US data centers
April 13, 2024

NTT conducts photonics tests in UK and US data centers

United Kingdom

NTT has conducted low-latency data center-to-data center light-based photonics tests in the UK and US, claiming latency of less than 1 millisecond between facilities almost 90km apart.  In the UK, two data centers around 100 km apart communicated via IOWN APN connection with a round trip of 1...

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Read Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas
Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas
April 13, 2024

Edged Energy plans new data center in Texas

Edged Energy

Edged Energy announced this week that it was pressing ahead with building the data center in Irving. This comes after the Irving City Council voted unanimously in support of the development of a new data center campus in the Dallas Fort Worth area of Texas“Sustainability is at the core of our...

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Read Eviden to provide upgrade to supercomputer in Brazil
Eviden to provide upgrade to supercomputer in Brazil
April 12, 2024

Eviden to provide upgrade to supercomputer in Brazil

Brazil / Brasil

Eviden this week announced that it has signed a new $19.4 million contract with Brazil’s National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC, aka Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica) to extend the compute capacity of its Santos Dumont supercomputer. “We're thrilled to continue our lo...

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Read Blackstone purchases majority stake in Winthrop Technologies
Blackstone purchases majority stake in Winthrop Technologies
April 12, 2024

Blackstone purchases majority stake in Winthrop Technologies

United States

US private equity firm Blackstone has bought a majority stake in data center engineering firm Winthrop Technologies. Financial details of this deal have not been shared. However, reports have it that Blackstone took a 50,5 percent stake, previously valued at over  €800 million. The remaining ...

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Read Rapidus forms new US subsidiary
Rapidus forms new US subsidiary
April 12, 2024

Rapidus forms new US subsidiary

United States

Semiconductor manufacturing company Rapidus has formed a US subsidiary, Rapidus Design Solutions (RDS), is opening an office in Santa Clara, California, and appointed Henri Richard as president and general manager of the US organization. The company works with IBM on the development of 2nm chi...

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Read EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing
EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing
April 12, 2024

EdgeConneX secures $1.9 billion sustainable-tied financing

EdgeConneX

This week, EdgeConneX announced it had secured an additional $1.9 billion in sustainability-linked financing to support its EMEA expansion. The company mentioned that this financing consolidates it’s portfolio across EMEA, transitioning it from “stand-alone project-based funding to a more robu...

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Read Catholic University of Chile launches new supercomputer
Catholic University of Chile launches new supercomputer
April 12, 2024

Catholic University of Chile launches new supercomputer

Chile

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (UC Chile) has installed the new Geryon 3 supercomputer in a 36 sqm (387 sq ft) room at the UC Institute of Astrophysics in Santiago. "To complement our observational capabilities, we will need a strong group of theorists who can help interpret the ...

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